Driving sustainability concepts and practices into the heart of the design process is the key to achieving a successful, sustainable plant design. Engineering design practices, tools, systems and methodologies should be prepared around true eco-efficiency parameters, adopt wholesystems-thinking and consider life-cycle impacts for the design task._x000D_
Experience dictates that the application of sustainable plant design practices is most likely to succeed if: The principles are well documented and explained._x000D_
All stakeholders agree on what sustainability means._x000D_
Sustainable plant design is treated as a core process.The principals of sustainable plant design are equally applicable in brownfield and Greenfield environments. Although brownfield situations provide the designer with less latitude for change, these types of projects do allow easier measurement and demonstration of relative impacts._x000D_
This paper further develops the above points by drawing on case studies from Hatch's repertoire._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Bangerter, P and Kwak, J, 2004. Sustainable plant design, in Proceedings Metallurgical Plant Design and Operating Strategies 2004, pp 3-14 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).